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One dad has earned a gazillion brownie points after turning his sons’ bedroom into the inside of the Millennium Falcon.

David Bonney, 47, from Anchorsholme, near Blackpool, surprised his two young Jedi, sons Dylan, 9, and George, 8, by creating a replica of the Star Wars spaceship’s flight deck.

It took the dad-of-five a month to bring their sci-fi fantasies to life.

The room as it used to look (Picture: Ross Parry)

The new bedroom includes a Millennium Falcon-style control panel with flashing LED lights, buttons and levers. The panel also contains USB ports and controls for their television and X-Box.

There’s a lot of flashing buttons to play with (Picture: Ross Parry)

There’s also a Darth Vader mask and lightsaber emerging from one of the walls.

Sleep with one eye open (Picture: Ross Parry)

‘The bedroom needed doing up because it hadn’t been done in about eight years and I set myself a challenge to do something special for them. They absolutely love it,’ said David.

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He adds that Darth Vader is their favourite character. ‘I grew up with Star Wars and I have all the films so they ended up watching them with me,’ he explains.

(Picture: Ross Parry)

They moved the two boys into another room while dad redecorated. Then, he put the final pieces in position while they were out for the day with mum Emma.

Dylan was ‘gobsmacked’ when he saw his new control centre. I love Star Wars because I like the way they dress the characters and the way they speak,’ he says.

‘I like the baddies because they are really strong at first and you never know who’s going to win. The room is definitely a lot better now – my brother think the same. It looked like someone else had come in and done it but I did know it was my dad.’

The only problem for mum and dad now is the boys are enjoying their intergalactic adventures too much.

George (left) and Dylan with their dad (Picture: Ross Parry)

‘We can’t get them out of their room now and we definitely can’t tell them to go to their room if they’ve been naughty anymore,’ admits dad.

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